Apple’s Asia-Pacific profits grew 2,991% in the past 5 years

In Japan, its profits grew 1,156% between 2005 and 2010. Europe’s were up 1,518%

Source: Motley Fool

“Apple’s international sales are simply on fire”

So wrote the Motley Fool‘s Erik Bleeker Monday in a piece assessing Apple’s AAPL overseas demand.

It is, as he puts it, exploding.

This will come as no surprise to anyone who has been following COO Tim Cook’s Q&As with analysts, where he’s been highlighting Apple’s growth in the Japanese and Asia Pacific markets. But Bleeker does a good job summarizing the data in charts and tables.

In 2005, as the pie chart at right shows, 59% of Apple’s sales came from the U.S. Five years later, the U.S. share had shrunk to 44%, and 56% of sales were coming from overseas.